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October 12, 2017 / Nation/World

WASHINGTON House Republicans are moving to restrict the president’s ability to protect millions of acres of federal land considered historic, geographically significant or culturally important. More...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. As his house filled with smoke from one of California’s devastating wine country fires, Ryan Nelson’s thoughts went to his elderly neighbors — one of whom has multiple sclerosis. More...

WASHINGTON Frustrated by failures in Congress, President Donald Trump will try to put his own stamp on health care with an executive order today that aims to make lower-premium plans more widely available. More...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Rival groups Hamas and Fatah have reached a preliminary, partial agreement that could pave the way for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume governing the Gaza Strip, a decade after Hamas overran the territory, of More...

NFL owners will meet next week to consider changes to a game manual that says players “should” stand during the national anthem, a guideline the league has left to the discretion of players who kneeled in large numbers after criticism fro More...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. Jose Garnica worked for more than two decades to build up his dream home that was reduced to ashes in a matter of minutes by the deadly firestorm striking Northern California. More...

MADRID Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy demanded today that the Catalan leader clarify whether he has declared independence, issuing a veiled threat that the central government could limit or rescind the region’s autonomy if he has.& More...

Just two weeks before renowned climber Hayden Kennedy killed himself following the death of his girlfriend in an avalanche in Montana, he wrote on a climbing blog that he had watched too many friends die in the mountains over the last few years. More...

WASHINGTON Even as President Donald Trump’s advisers encourage him to accept the realities of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, longtime friends and allies are pushing Trump to fight back, citing concerns that his lawyers are naive More...

BARCELONA, Spain Catalonia’s regional leader was addressing parliament today in a highly anticipated session that could spell the birth of a new republic, marking a critical point in a decadelong standoff between Catalan separatists and More...

TAIPEI, Taiwan Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen today said her government will defend the self-governing island’s freedoms and democratic system amid heightened tensions with rival China, and renewed calls for dialogue that Beijing suspended m More...

TOKYO A Japanese court today ordered the government and the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant to pay 500 million yen ($4.5 million) to thousands of area residents and evacuees who were demanding compensation for their livelihoods lost in More...